Poor conditions in a detention centre for young people with fires killing nine detainees and injuring many - Violation of the right to judicial protection and to humane treatment given the atmosphere of violence, danger, abuse and mistrust - Violation of the right to life in combination with children's rights in failing to preventing the fire
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trindade
Rape and ill-treatment of twenty girls and young women in the context of the massacre of 268 people, mainly indigenous Mayans, as part of genocidal counter-insurgence state policy against indigenous people – Denial of justice, intimidation and discrimination to the detriment of the survivors and the next of kin of the victims
Dissenting / Concurring: García Ramírez / Cançado Trinidade
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Transsexual denied legal recognition of her gender change and refused retirement pension from the age applicable to other women
The applicant complained that, if expelled to Iran, he would face a real risk of treatment contrary to Article 3 of the Convention on account of his sexual orientation - Inadmissible
Work leave in case of adoption or foster care within the first year of the child's life, instead of within the first year of the child's entry into the family – Infringement of the principle of equality by treating adoptive or foster parents and adopted or foster children less favourably than natural parents and children
Substitute teaching conferred during the period of compulsory maternity leave - Exclusion of maternity allowance - Alleged unequal treatment, infringing the right to remuneration and the principle of impartiality
Maternity and childhood, working mothers who adopt - Right to maternity allowance in the case of international adoption - Entitlement during the three months following the entry of the adopted or fostered child, even if he or she is over six years of age - Manifestly unreasonable difference in treatment between employees and self-employed women
Equality before the law without distinction of sex - Possibility for all citizens, of both sexes, to have equal access to public and elected offices in equal shares
Deprivation of the enjoyment and exercise of certain labour rights of migrant workers incompatible with obligation to respect and ensure the principles of legal equality, non-discrimination and the equal and effective protection of the law - Attention to all the areas of discriminatory human behaviour, including sexual orientation
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trindade / García Ramírez / Hernán Salgado Pesantes / Abreu-Burelli
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Discrimination between homosexual and heterosexual partners as regards transmission of tenancy rights on the death of one of the partners
Dissenting / Concurring: Grabenwarter
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Different age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts
Article 3 (Positive obligations) and Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Adequacy of protection provided by Bulgarian law for victim of alleged rape - Bulgarian law provided insufficient protection to victim of an alleged act of rape
Dissenting / Concurring: Tulkens
Refusal to divulge identity of biological parents - No violation
Dissenting / Concurring: L. Wildhaber, Nicolas Bratza, G. Bonello, L. Loucaides, I. Cabral Barreto, F. Tulkens, M. Pellonpää/Greve, Ress, Kuris, Rozakis
Violation of Article 14 (discrimination) - Placement of children with father, as the mother was a Jehovah’s Witness - The appeal court had treated the parents differently on the basis of the applicant’s religion, on the strength of a harsh analysis of the educational principles allegedly imposed by the religion
Dissenting / Concurring: W. Thomassen
Measures to promote equality of opportunity between men and women - Subsidised nursery places made available by a Ministry to its staff - Places reserved only for children of female officials, save in cases of emergency, to be determined by the employer
Judge Rapporteur: A. La Pergola
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8 - The applicant alleged discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and on the grounds of age, on the basis that the legislation set down different ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts
Dissenting / Concurring: Lemmens, Vehabović, Bošnjak / Pinto de Albuquerque / Lemmens, Vehabović, Ranzoni, Bošnjak
Article 8, both alone and in conjunction with Article 14 - The applicants complained about both the intrusive investigations into their private lives and about their subsequent discharges from the armed forces pursuant to the absolute policy of the Ministry of Defence against homosexuals in the armed forces
Article 8 (Respect for private life) and Article 12 (Marry) - Absence of legal recognition of change of sex - Impossibility for transsexual to marry
Dissenting / Concurring: Fischbach / Türmen / Greve
Being homosexuals, the applicant was unable to give blood -The applicant complained of a violation of Articles 8 (right to respect for private life) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination)
Relying on Articles 8 and 14 of the Convention, the applicant complains that his sexual orientation as such constitutes an exclusion clause from blood donation, and considers that this constitutes discrimination against him